Idaho Matters Doctors Roundtable: May 29, 2024

2024-05-29

FILE - In this May 27, 2011 file photo, kids fish at twilight at the edge of Kingman Wash, at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona. Regional health officials say a Las Vegas-area boy died from a rare brain-eating amoeba that investigators think he was exposed to in warm waters at Lake Mead. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)(Julie Jacobson/AP / AP)Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently said he had a dead worm in his brain. So what are brain worms? How are they different from brain amoebas? And how do you...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently said he had a dead worm in his brain. So what are brain worms? How are they different from brain amoebas? And how do you keep them out of your head?

Plus we get an update on bird flu which has now been found in alpacas in Idaho.

Dr. David Pate, former CEO of St. Luke's Health System, joined Idaho Matters to talk more about these issues and answer your listener questions.

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